As a blogger who does the occasional review and giveaway, there’s not much I love more than being asked to review a product or brand that I already use and love. Lands’ End is one of those brands. Each year, the company contacts me and asks if I’d like to review one of their school […]
October 13, 2012
My suburban neighborhood has a few hot spots– places where you’re guaranteed to know pretty much everyone. They include the local pub, the Kroger, the YMCA, the Dollar Tree (yes, we’re highbrow), and the car rider pick-up line at my kids’ elementary school. Generally, I consider this small-town atmosphere to be a good thing– an […]
September 26, 2012
Parents here in Nashville are in an uproar right now over the state of our public school system, and my Facebook feed is exploding with their collective angst. You can read about the catalysts for this debate here and here if you’re interested, but I want to keep this discussion broad enough for all of […]
September 21, 2012
At the beginning of this summer, I had a very important appointment. I’ll spare you the identifying details of where this appointment took place or what it was about. All you really need to know is that it gave me an opportunity to dress up like a real, honest-to-god Working Woman. Since I’d spent the […]
September 19, 2012
At this moment, I am all alone in my house. There are no children arguing or screaming or throwing their toys down the stairs or demanding milk/crayons/entertainment. There are no sullen teenagers slamming doors or sleeping until 3:00 in the afternoon or blasting music. I have mixed feelings about the fact that every one of […]
September 12, 2012
In 2005, I started this blog. At that time, I didn’t know there were other mom bloggers online. I didn’t even know that what I was doing was called ‘blogging.’ I called it an ‘online diary.’ And shockingly, people started showing up to read it. And they came back. And they introduced themselves. And a […]
July 28, 2012
Today, I woke up feeling like I had been run over by a garbage truck. In a good way, of course. I have spent the last four days traveling by car more than 600 miles through the swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, meeting moms and listening to their stories for CafeMom’s Moms Matter 2012 […]
July 13, 2012
Where have I been this time? Well. Monday and Tuesday, I went to a “secret” “professional training event” in New York City that was really, REALLY awesome, and yet was populated with 20-somethings– and me– and made me feel, for the very first time, OLD. Especially when, at the end of the event, one of […]
June 30, 2012
